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News online for Encinitas, Calif.

North Coast Current

News online for Encinitas, Calif.

North Coast Current

A Sears catalog cover from the early 1960s. (Goodwill image)

Historically Speaking: The nation’s first mail order general stores

Tom Morrow May 10, 2023
Before there were roads connecting the Atlantic to the Pacific and Mexico to Alaska, you could buy goods delivered via railroad freight and/or the U.S. mail. This was more than a century before the Internet, all courtesy of the mail-order catalogs of the Montgomery Ward and Sears & Roebuck companies. It was the Amazon of yesteryear.
E-Bike Rider Seriously Injured in Collision with Amazon Delivery Vehicle

E-Bike Rider Seriously Injured in Collision with Amazon Delivery Vehicle

OsideNews December 16, 2021

San Marcos CA— On December 15, 2021, at approximately 5:18 pm, deputies assigned to the San Marcos Sheriff's Station Traffic Division responded to a major injury collision at the intersection of San...

Letters to the Editor- Oceanside Throws Neighbors Under Amazon’s Trucks

Letters to the Editor- Oceanside Throws Neighbors Under Amazon’s Trucks

OsideNews June 8, 2021

As if Oceanside’s intersection traffic congestion is not bad enough it is about to take a brutal turn into grid lock. The Planning Commission just approved Amazon building a 150,000 square foot distribution...

Encinitas novelist is international award finalist

North Coast Current May 22, 2020
“Black Market News,” the debut novel by Encinitas-based journalist, filmmaker and educator Roman S. Koenig, is an official 2020 Eric Hoffer Book Award finalist.
Suspect Carjacks Amazon Delivery Vehicle in Fallbrook

Suspect Carjacks Amazon Delivery Vehicle in Fallbrook

OsideNews April 29, 2018

Fallbrook CA— At approximately 4:20pm this afternoon, April 29, 2018, deputies assigned to the Fallbrook Sheriff's Station were dispatched to N. Ridge Drive in Fallbrook to investigate a carjacking....

A sign attached to the door of the former Whole Foods Market in downtown Encinitas at the start of November announces the 2018 opening of an Amazon Go store in the space. The sign and a related website, which is no longer active, are reportedly incorrect. (Photo courtesy of Encinitas 101 MainStreet Association)

No Go: Disappointment, questions remain after unconfirmed Amazon Encinitas store announcement

Meghan Lanigan November 17, 2017
Within the past week, Encinitas residents and city officials went from excitement to confusion about whether or not Amazon was opening an Amazon Go store in downtown Encinitas at the previous Whole Foods Market location in the Pacific Station center on South Coast Highway 101.
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